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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Port-Vila in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on February 17, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -17.5439S, 167.6122WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu on Wednesday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:25:15 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000dier. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dier. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 167.6122° East, -17.5439° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 15:25:15 / February 17, 2021 @ 3:25 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 77 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.6122° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.5439° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km WNW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-17 15:25:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-17 21:45:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dier Id of event.
Event Code 6000dier An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dier, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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